Carl-Richard

Try upping it to 1 hour. For me, most of the magic happens past the 45 minute mark.

I challenge you to explain my tornado dream without breaking the assumptions of materialism.

@Epikur Grande's lazy rationalist style is like an extra dry Michael Shermer.

Game B summed up by Terrence McKenna (7:06):

It's mostly experiences of precognition like @Raptorsin7 is talking about. It's kinda inaccurate to call it paranormal. It's pretty normal. It just goes against the materialist paradigm.

Even I claim to have some level of paranormal abilities, and I'm not even stabilized in non-duality. I can only imagine what Sadhguru is pulling off on a daily basis.

Homophobia is real. When will Rubin realize why he has always been a liberal?

Yeah I saw that one. It's pretty sad.

The forum is casual enough as it is. It would start to venture too far outside self-actualization (growth needs) and over to fulfilling entertainment and social needs (deficiency needs), and that's where cults are born.

...and you don't seem to want to clarify what you were saying.

You asked for advice. Been there, done that. It did not end well.

What is the difference?

Don't.

Homophobia occurs frequently on the conservative side. Homophobia is a certain kind of moron. It's also funny how conservative Jews like Ben Shapiro are homophobes too.

It's tricky when it comes to online spiritual cults, because it's technically very easy to leave, but there is some underlying narrative that coerces you to stay, e.g. "we're now in a spiritual war between good and evil. Some of our members are harboring negative entities and have been plotting to betray us, and they have to be stopped. The fate of the world depends on it." It's a kind of existential terrorism. In this case, all it requires is a charismatic leader who suddenly develops a messiah complex and eschatological visions.

@lostingenosmaze Omg that meme sound

Stop tripping before you hurt yourself.

I might make a thread about what a real online cult looks like, recounting my personal experiences from a couple of years ago. Spoiler: this ain't it.

Legitimately genius point

God is proof.

That's transmission right there

Sadhguru likes to give a lot of context when answering each question, which is a good thing when you're dealing with a novice audience, but also the way he speaks in general is extremely interconnected and holistic. Each sub-point much be understood relative to the larger point, which of course is long-winded and easily mistaken for endless rambling. He always comes around in the end if you let him go long enough, but the common interviewing style is way too impatient for that, so he tends to get cut off too early. People are accustomed to short bullet point answers. Their attention spans don't allow for wisdom.

After studying a bit of psychology, I've noticed a recurring trend in the structure of various models across many sub-disciplines (of course excluding behaviorism), something which I like to call the "cognitive data bank": internally stored information. I believe it's such a common thing because of the intuitive sense (and thus utility) of conceiving of people as carrying information inside their minds, whether conscious or unconscious, for the means of explaining behavior, experiences etc. I believe knowing about the cognitive data bank will make it easier to understand similar aspects of slightly different psychological theories. When learning a new theory, you might start to have the experience of "aha! – that's a cognitive data bank!" Here I will give a couple of examples of what I think are direct representations of (or deeply related to) the concept of the cognitive data bank (obviously starting with the concept of memory): 1 Cognitive science 1.1. Memory 1.1.1 Short-term memory 1.1.2 Long-term memory 1.2 Cognitive schemas (Beck) 2 Psychodynamic theory (Freud etc.) 2.1 The Unconscious https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psychodynamics 2.2 Object relations (Klein etc.) https://www.simplypsychology.org/Melanie-Klein.html 3. Attachment theory (Bowlby etc.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attachment_theory 3.1 Internal working model 4. Coping strategies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coping 4.1 Appraisal theory (Lazarus) 4.2 Religious coping (Pargament) The examples under point 4. are less obvious, but hopefully you'll still be able to spot the part of the model where the internally stored information occurs. Anyways, that's it (maybe I'll add more over time). Hope you found it interesting

Resilience.